Drosophila (/drəˈsɒfɪlə, drɒ-, droʊ-/) is a genus of fly, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "small fruit flies" or...
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Drosophila melanogaster is a species of fly (an insect of the order Diptera) in the family Drosophilidae. The species is often referred to as the fruit...
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Drosophila embryogenesis, the process by which Drosophila (fruit fly) embryos form, is a favorite model system for genetics and developmental biology...
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Drosophila suzukii, commonly called the spotted wing drosophila or SWD, is a fruit fly. D. suzukii, originally from southeast Asia, is becoming a major...
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Circadian rhythm (section In Drosophila)
demonstrated that eclosion (the process of pupa turning into adult) in Drosophila pseudoobscura was a circadian behaviour. He demonstrated that while temperature...
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Octopamine (section In non-Drosophila insects)
(Drosophila melanogaster) has DmOctβ1R, DmOctβ2R, and DmOctβ3R. OAMB. The diversity of this receptor is relatively unknown. The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)...
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Hox gene (section In Drosophila)
gene are similar enough to target the same downstream genes in flies. Drosophila melanogaster is an important model for understanding body plan generation...
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Drosophila. It is related to the Drosophila quinaria and Drosophila testacea species groups, and the fellow Immigrans species group member Drosophila...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rosbash's research group cloned the Drosophila period gene in 1984 and proposed the Transcription Translation Negative...
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Drosophila bifurca is a species of fruit fly. Males of this species are known to have the longest sperm cells of any organism on Earth—5.8 cm long when...
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Drosophila hydei (mosca casera) is a species of Diptera, or the order of flies, in the family Drosophilidae. It is a species in the hydei species subgroup...
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Drosophila lanaiensis is an extinct species of fly in family Drosophilidae that was endemic to Hawaii. It lived on Lānaʻi, and possibly on Oʻahu. World...
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Drosophila busckii is a species of fruit fly that is native to North America, though it now also occurs in Asia, Europe, Oceania and South America. It...
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Drosophila. Drosophila funebris is a member of the Immigrans-tripunctata radiation of the subgenus Drosophila. Drosophila funebris female Drosophila funebris...
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Chymomyza costata (redirect from Drosophila costata)
Subfamily: Drosophilinae Genus: Chymomyza Species: C. costata Binomial name Chymomyza costata (Zetterstedt, 1838) Synonyms Drosophila costata Zetterstedt, 1838...
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Drosophila acanthomera is a species of fruit fly in the genus Drosophila. Tsacas, L. (2001). "Description de trois nouvelles espèces afrotropicales du...
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A Drosophila connectome is a list of neurons in the Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) nervous system, and the chemical synapses between them. The fly's...
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Mushroom bodies (section Drosophila melanogaster)
americana, the honey bee Apis mellifera, the locust and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Studies of fruit fly mushroom bodies have been particularly...
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Drosophila circadian rhythm is a daily 24-hour cycle of rest and activity in the fruit flies of the genus Drosophila. The biological process was discovered...
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P element (redirect from Drosophila p element)
P elements are transposable elements that were discovered in Drosophila as the causative agents of genetic traits called hybrid dysgenesis. The transposon...
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Drosophila is a paraphyletic subgenus of the genus Drosophila, a classification of fruit flies. This subgenus was first described by Alfred Sturtevant...
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Chymomyza fuscimana (redirect from Drosophila fuscimana)
fuscimana Binomial name Chymomyza fuscimana (Zetterstedt, 1838) Synonyms Drosophila fuscimana Zetterstedt, 1838 Drosophila albopunctata Becker, 1900...
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Drosophila synthetica refers to a genetically engineered population of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. This population was created under laboratory...
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The Drosophila Research Conference, informally known as "the fly meeting", is an annual meeting of Drosophila researchers held in North America since...
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William E. Castle (section Harvard and Drosophila)
suggested to Castle that Drosophila might be used for genetical work. Castle was the first to use the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, and it was his...
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of a segmented organism. Animals are constructed of segments; however, Drosophila segments also contain subdivided compartments. There are five gene classes...
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Drosophila elegans is a flower-feeding species of fruit flies, belonging to the family Drosophilidae. It is found in Taiwan and the Philippines in Asia...
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Drosophila repleta is a species of vinegar fly in the family Drosophilidae. D. repleta is a subtropical species, and is well adapted to warm, urbanized...
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SEC62 (redirect from Drosophila melanogaster gene 1)
Sasaki H (Feb 1997). "Identification of a human cDNA homologue to the Drosophila translocation protein 1 (Dtrp1)". Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 230 (1):...
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Lordiphosa andalusiaca (redirect from Drosophila andalusiaca)
Species: L. andalusiaca Binomial name Lordiphosa andalusiaca (Strobl, 1906) Synonyms Drosophila andalusiaca Strobl, 1906 Drosophila forcipata Collin, 1952...
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